Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 81 85
Rank change year-on-year -10 +4 -29
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 2,086 1,776 2,375
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.92% 3.56% 2.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.62% 4.00% 3.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,448 855 1,563
10th Percentile £45,319 £49,700 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.54% -13.33%
75th Percentile £93,634 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £113,750 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -1.52%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 79,636 44,374 67,391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.20% 88.88% 80.70%
Number of salaries quoted 55,106 25,202 42,338
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,650 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 25 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 25 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -17 1,815 £75,000 +3.45% 993
UK excluding London -23 1,145 £67,500 -3.57% 536
Work from Home -14 869 £67,500 -3.57% 477
London -18 799 £85,000 +6.25% 596
North of England -40 375 £70,932 +1.33% 166
South East +27 329 £65,000 -7.14% 87
North West -51 199 £75,000 +7.14% 88
South West -6 132 £60,000 - 92
Midlands -46 107 £67,500 -3.57% 66
North East +24 99 £65,000 +18.18% 35
West Midlands -38 78 £80,000 +10.34% 41
Yorkshire -8 77 £69,308 -0.99% 44
Northern Ireland -22 68 £60,000 +33.33% 25
Wales -22 61 £65,000 +25.00% 7
East of England -36 40 £60,100 -3.84% 31
Scotland -54 35 £60,000 -22.58% 66
East Midlands -53 29 £64,500 -4.44% 24
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 43 (2.06%) Confluence
2 30 (1.44%) Apache Spark
3 18 (0.86%) Apache
4 17 (0.81%) CMS
5 14 (0.67%) Camunda
5 14 (0.67%) IIS
6 9 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 9 (0.43%) OpenStack
7 8 (0.38%) JBoss
8 7 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
8 7 (0.34%) nginx
8 7 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 7 (0.34%) WordPress
9 5 (0.24%) Drupal
10 4 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (0.19%) Umbraco
11 3 (0.14%) DNN
11 3 (0.14%) EPiServer
11 3 (0.14%) Immediacy CMS
11 3 (0.14%) Kentico
Applications
1 11 (0.53%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.48%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.14%) PlantUML
4 2 (0.096%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.048%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (0.29%) Oracle Retail
3 4 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.096%) Shopify
6 1 (0.048%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.048%) Eikon
6 1 (0.048%) RMDS
6 1 (0.048%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,053 (50.48%) AWS
2 878 (42.09%) Azure
3 328 (15.72%) GCP
4 262 (12.56%) Serverless
5 260 (12.46%) GitHub
6 198 (9.49%) SaaS
7 184 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
8 144 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
9 120 (5.75%) Amazon S3
10 113 (5.42%) Amazon EKS
10 113 (5.42%) AWS CloudFormation
11 106 (5.08%) GitHub Copilot
12 96 (4.60%) Azure Service Bus
13 85 (4.07%) Amazon ECS
14 74 (3.55%) GitHub Actions
15 67 (3.21%) Amazon SQS
16 65 (3.12%) Amazon EC2
17 64 (3.07%) Azure AKS
18 50 (2.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 49 (2.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (2.11%) Broadband
2 22 (1.05%) Network Security
3 13 (0.62%) DMARC
3 13 (0.62%) MQTT
4 12 (0.58%) DNS
5 9 (0.43%) HTTP
6 8 (0.38%) AMQP
6 8 (0.38%) Internet
6 8 (0.38%) TCP/IP
6 8 (0.38%) VPN
7 7 (0.34%) Hyperconnected
8 6 (0.29%) Firewall
8 6 (0.29%) RFID
9 3 (0.14%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (0.14%) DHCP
9 3 (0.14%) LTE
9 3 (0.14%) Modbus
9 3 (0.14%) NAS
9 3 (0.14%) SAN
10 2 (0.096%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 307 (14.72%) MongoDB
2 228 (10.93%) PostgreSQL
3 199 (9.54%) NoSQL
4 168 (8.05%) Azure SQL Database
5 160 (7.67%) Elasticsearch
6 123 (5.90%) SQL Server
7 118 (5.66%) MySQL
8 97 (4.65%) Relational Database
9 71 (3.40%) Redis
10 57 (2.73%) DynamoDB
11 48 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
12 30 (1.44%) Big Data
13 17 (0.81%) Data Lake
14 16 (0.77%) RDBMS
15 14 (0.67%) Pinecone
16 13 (0.62%) BigQuery
17 12 (0.58%) Db2
17 12 (0.58%) DTS
18 10 (0.48%) Geospatial Data
19 8 (0.38%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 276 (13.23%) Git
2 186 (8.92%) GitLab
3 164 (7.86%) Jenkins
4 64 (3.07%) JIRA
4 64 (3.07%) JUnit
5 56 (2.68%) TeamCity
6 51 (2.44%) Cucumber
7 40 (1.92%) Cypress.io
8 39 (1.87%) Mockito
9 34 (1.63%) Claude Code
10 31 (1.49%) Maven
11 26 (1.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 26 (1.25%) Selenium
12 18 (0.86%) SonarQube
13 15 (0.72%) Postman
13 15 (0.72%) Spock
14 14 (0.67%) JMeter
14 14 (0.67%) REST Assured
15 13 (0.62%) CircleCI
16 11 (0.53%) Vite
General
1 528 (25.31%) Finance
2 413 (19.80%) Social Skills
3 217 (10.40%) Public Sector
4 186 (8.92%) Banking
5 157 (7.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 151 (7.24%) Law
7 140 (6.71%) Analytical Skills
8 115 (5.51%) Retail
9 84 (4.03%) Legal
10 69 (3.31%) Financial Institution
11 63 (3.02%) Marketing
12 50 (2.40%) Back Office
13 37 (1.77%) Aerospace
14 30 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
15 29 (1.39%) Games
16 28 (1.34%) Legal Technology
17 19 (0.91%) Advertising
18 18 (0.86%) Front Office
19 13 (0.62%) Manufacturing
20 12 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 778 (37.30%) Developer
2 495 (23.73%) Senior
3 375 (17.98%) Software Engineer
4 351 (16.83%) Lead
5 304 (14.57%) Architect
6 204 (9.78%) .NET Developer
7 187 (8.96%) Senior Developer
8 168 (8.05%) Full-Stack Developer
9 160 (7.67%) Java Developer
10 130 (6.23%) Java Engineer
11 123 (5.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 121 (5.80%) Senior Software Engineer
13 109 (5.23%) Solutions Architect
14 104 (4.99%) Principal Engineer
15 85 (4.07%) Software Developer
16 78 (3.74%) Lead Software Engineer
17 74 (3.55%) DevOps Engineer
18 72 (3.45%) Lead Developer
19 60 (2.88%) Technical Leader
20 56 (2.68%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 559 (26.80%) .NET
2 443 (21.24%) React
3 430 (20.61%) Node.js
4 373 (17.88%) Terraform
5 358 (17.16%) Spring
6 325 (15.58%) Spring Boot
7 311 (14.91%) RESTful
8 292 (14.00%) REST
9 271 (12.99%) Kafka
10 248 (11.89%) ASP.NET
11 229 (10.98%) .NET Core
12 221 (10.59%) AngularJS
13 217 (10.40%) Vue
14 199 (9.54%) ASP.NET Core
15 121 (5.80%) Blazor
16 104 (4.99%) ASP.NET Web API
17 95 (4.55%) .NET Framework
17 95 (4.55%) HTML
18 93 (4.46%) CSS
19 84 (4.03%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 650 (31.16%) Cloud Native
2 373 (17.88%) Distributed Systems
3 150 (7.19%) Product Ownership
4 112 (5.37%) Enterprise Software
5 109 (5.23%) Legacy Systems
6 75 (3.60%) Onboarding
7 53 (2.54%) Greenfield Project
8 50 (2.40%) AI Agents
9 49 (2.35%) Public Cloud
10 43 (2.06%) Virtual Team
11 38 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
12 37 (1.77%) e-Learning
13 30 (1.44%) Video\Live Streaming
14 27 (1.29%) Distributed Architecture
15 26 (1.25%) Over-the-Top Content
16 24 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
17 21 (1.01%) Algorithms
17 21 (1.01%) Data Structures
17 21 (1.01%) Management Information System
18 20 (0.96%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 139 (6.66%) Linux
2 49 (2.35%) Windows
3 26 (1.25%) CentOS
3 26 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (1.01%) Unix
5 9 (0.43%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.38%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.34%) Android
8 6 (0.29%) AIX
9 5 (0.24%) Debian
9 5 (0.24%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.096%) VMS
11 1 (0.048%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,109 (53.16%) CI/CD
2 988 (47.36%) Agile
3 744 (35.67%) Software Engineering
4 729 (34.95%) DevOps
5 578 (27.71%) Full-Stack Development
6 516 (24.74%) Mentoring
7 463 (22.20%) Event-Driven
8 441 (21.14%) AI
9 421 (20.18%) Test Automation
10 418 (20.04%) Containerisation
11 415 (19.89%) Continuous Improvement
12 412 (19.75%) Infrastructure as Code
13 374 (17.93%) Problem-Solving
14 303 (14.53%) Technical Leadership
15 289 (13.85%) Scrum
16 288 (13.81%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 244 (11.70%) TDD
18 237 (11.36%) Architectural Patterns
18 237 (11.36%) Clean Code
19 227 (10.88%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 710 (34.04%) Java
2 586 (28.09%) C#
3 502 (24.07%) SQL
4 472 (22.63%) Python
5 462 (22.15%) JavaScript
6 390 (18.70%) TypeScript
7 105 (5.03%) Go
8 57 (2.73%) Ruby
9 46 (2.21%) C++
10 41 (1.97%) Bash
11 40 (1.92%) PHP
12 36 (1.73%) Scala
13 28 (1.34%) PowerShell
14 26 (1.25%) Bicep
15 24 (1.15%) Rust
16 23 (1.10%) Kotlin
17 20 (0.96%) PL/SQL
18 19 (0.91%) C
19 13 (0.62%) Groovy
20 12 (0.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 300 (14.38%) Security Cleared
2 202 (9.68%) SC Cleared
3 179 (8.58%) Degree
4 90 (4.31%) DV Cleared
5 81 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 73 (3.50%) AWS Certification
7 49 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 30 (1.44%) Azure Certification
9 29 (1.39%) CISSP
10 18 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
10 18 (0.86%) CISM
10 18 (0.86%) Master's Degree
11 14 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
12 10 (0.48%) MBA
12 10 (0.48%) PhD
13 7 (0.34%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 5 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
15 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
16 4 (0.19%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 220 (10.55%) QA
2 91 (4.36%) Accessibility
3 37 (1.77%) WCAG
4 35 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 33 (1.58%) GDPR
6 17 (0.81%) NCSC
7 16 (0.77%) NIST
8 14 (0.67%) SOC 2
9 13 (0.62%) Data Quality
10 12 (0.58%) PCI DSS
11 10 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
12 9 (0.43%) GRC
12 9 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 8 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
16 5 (0.24%) PSD2
17 4 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 4 (0.19%) ISO 20022
18 3 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 591 (28.33%) Docker
2 35 (1.68%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.24%) NDS
4 5 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.19%) Firmware
5 4 (0.19%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.14%) KVM
7 1 (0.048%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 626 (30.01%) Kubernetes
2 110 (5.27%) Ansible
3 97 (4.65%) Grafana
4 52 (2.49%) Prometheus
5 27 (1.29%) Argo
6 26 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (0.91%) Puppet
8 15 (0.72%) Kibana
9 9 (0.43%) Cilium
10 6 (0.29%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.24%) Podman
12 4 (0.19%) HP Fortify
12 4 (0.19%) Packer
13 3 (0.14%) Kubeflow
14 2 (0.096%) MIIS
14 2 (0.096%) Rancher
15 1 (0.048%) Cisco CUCM
15 1 (0.048%) Fluentd
15 1 (0.048%) logstash
15 1 (0.048%) Nagios
Vendors
1 331 (15.87%) Microsoft
2 98 (4.70%) Google
3 72 (3.45%) Oracle
4 40 (1.92%) OpenAI
5 39 (1.87%) Splunk
6 29 (1.39%) Dynatrace
7 26 (1.25%) Typelevel
8 25 (1.20%) IBM
9 23 (1.10%) AppDynamics
9 23 (1.10%) Databricks
10 22 (1.05%) Okta
11 20 (0.96%) ForgeRock
12 17 (0.81%) OneLogin
13 16 (0.77%) SAP
14 13 (0.62%) Adobe
14 13 (0.62%) Salesforce
14 13 (0.62%) SendGrid
15 12 (0.58%) ServiceNow
16 10 (0.48%) Red Hat
17 8 (0.38%) OpenText